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People who have been to psych wards, what was your experience like?

I've been to numerous. None of them were really that bad, unless your shame is still completely intact, which of course mine hasn't been for years. I couldn't care less about judgemental doctors or shitty nurses, at this point, that has just been my life, so whatever. No one pushed meds on me. All I had to do was say no, or say what I am prescribed or have been prescribed, and they just continue it in the short term.

A problem though, is that, in a lot of places they pretty much fling all the mental health patients and detox patients in together and just call it a "co occuring disorders" unit. Which is bs, because these are very different people in most cases. You get everything from some young girl that just had a meltdown, to a junkie trying to get clean, to a lifelong criminal jumping from program to program, and to several different varieties of people that are so mentally ill that they can't take care of themselves or interact with other people. This does not create any kind of environment that is worthwhile, ime...

It is still better than jail. Or being homeless. That said, you will see some really weird shit. Last place I was at there was this 40+ year old woman, with no teeth, that basically kept telling everyone she was a lesbian and flashing her tits at people. After her showers, she would scream down the hallway for a nurse for a towel. If one didn't come right away, she would just start traipsing down the hallway ass naked.

And yeah, like ions said, the boredom is the worst part. That, and the time sitting and digesting whatever dumb shit you did to wind up there in the first place. I've been in there before with injuries, or freshly sober, and that doesn't help. That said, at least where I'm at, they're not the hellish early 20th century wards that people make them out to be.
 
I was just released from a psych ward about a month ago. I went to the emergency room because I was severely depressed and having suicidal thoughts. I knew I needed help so I went. The DR Baker acted me (72 hr mandatory hold). When I got to the floor, it was quite strange. There were people just walking around with no real purpose. There were people that seemed completely normal, with no real issues. I met briefly with a psychiatrist each day. I was already on meds, so they just adjusted what they could and changed a few things. It seemed like they put almost everyone on the same meds. I ended up staying there for 9 days. There was no clinical reason to keep me there that long, I just didn't have a place to go after being released. I was beyond ready to leave. I ended up signing a 24 hr release so they had to release me. And as far as other patients. They had everything from someone who ate screws, a young kid (20) who had been there over 20 times already, a woman in her 30s with the mind of a child who thought she had 21 babies, a nurse who threatened an ex with a gun, and several people who had attempted suicide but did not succeed. It was not a place for detox or rehab. It was straight up mental health issues. All they did was stabilize (basically put you on meds). There were group therapy sessions where we'd play games or color. There were also more informational sessions about mental health but those were extremely basic. They fed us about 5 times a day. We were only allowed outside for half an hour, if the weather was cooperating. There was a lot of down time. I only saw one time when someone freaked out and they closed off that side of the hallway. She was sedated and not seen for the rest of the day. Other than that it was like any psych ward. I was grateful there weren't people screaming or attacking each other.
 
I took an excessive amount of Lorazepam and spent several days in the psych ward. It was a first for me, and my curious nature would have been interested. However, due to the benzo effect, I only have one sliver of a memory of it, and lost a solid 5 days.
 
There was one day in the psych ward where they gave me meds, don't know what combo, but it completely knocked me out for 24 hours. Where all I could do is sleep. I don't agree we should be doing that to patients. But I remember my parents coming for a visit and I got like 5 minutes into the visit and I"m like I can't stay awake any longer. and Explained the meds are too much to handle. The doctors changed it up the next day.

Doctors should also try not to resort to medicine just because youre in there. It's how they get money. and healthcare need not be a money game. Meds as a last resort.
 
I was in 2 weeks. I was forced and lied to enter there. And yes @TheUltimateFixx i was tied the first 2 days without being agressive. I only gave the evil eye to the psichiatrist that interviewed me. They gave me a cocktail in a plastic glass that knocked me out for two days. I didnt eat nor smoke for these 2 days that I was tied to bed. I was psycothic and thougt that I was Jesucrist
 
I have to say that it was hell on earth and saw how tied a girl that was a bit conflictive a they didnt clean her when she shit in the bed
 
The only good memory i have of the psych ward is when i was talking to my friend in the tv room and this chick came over and grabbed me by the cock and started giving me a handjob right in front of everyone. Sadly i was on invega at the time and just wasent interested
 
paranoid android said:
The only good memory i have of the psych ward is when i was talking to my friend in the tv room and this chick came over and grabbed me by the cock and started giving me a handjob right in front of everyone. Sadly i was on invega at the time and just wasent interested
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Lucky. Was she hot or what? Also, what's wrong with you? 😁🤔

I may have already mentioned this but the last bhu I was at was outside of Baltimore. We had a serial flasher patient. This big black woman in her 40s with summer teeth, would straight up just flash her tits at people and told us all she was a lesbian. Poor girl had a horrible stutter too. She would take a shower, and then scream for the staff to bring her a towel, every damn time. If they didn't bring her one, she'd traipse down the hall butt nekkid. It was really sad how bad off she was.

You see some fucked up shit in psych wards. You also meet some interesting people though. And have time to stop and just think about life and get shit in perspective. I mean I never had fun in the bhu, but I never dreaded it like so many. There was definitely uncomfortable moments, and the lack of freedom does suck at first, but once you stop acting like a spoiled brat, everything tends to just get better and you get through it. I acted horribly at points when I was mentally unwell, to the doctors and everyone. My last few trips were a lot smoother, despite my mental illness getting worse and worse, I at least had some modicum of self control by the time I got there.
 
deficiT said:
Lucky. Was she hot or what? Also, what's wrong with you? 😁🤔

I may have already mentioned this but the last bhu I was at was outside of Baltimore. We had a serial flasher patient. This big black woman in her 40s with summer teeth, would straight up just flash her tits at people and told us all she was a lesbian. Poor girl had a horrible stutter too. She would take a shower, and then scream for the staff to bring her a towel, every damn time. If they didn't bring her one, she'd traipse down the hall butt nekkid. It was really sad how bad off she was.

You see some fucked up shit in psych wards. You also meet some interesting people though. And have time to stop and just think about life and get shit in perspective. I mean I never had fun in the bhu, but I never dreaded it like so many. There was definitely uncomfortable moments, and the lack of freedom does suck at first, but once you stop acting like a spoiled brat, everything tends to just get better and you get through it. I acted horribly at points when I was mentally unwell, to the doctors and everyone. My last few trips were a lot smoother, despite my mental illness getting worse and worse, I at least had some modicum of self control by the time I got there.
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She was hot but i couldnt have gotten it up with a gun to my head god invega sucks.

Ya you see lots of fucked up shit in there. I did meet a few cool people in there probably the most interesting of which was a guy from Rwanda whos parents had fled the genocide. He was only like 18 or something but his parents where like my age so ya can see why he would be abit fucked up. Some generational trauma going on there no doubt. There was also a guy in there from the Congo but he didnt talk much. He also slept with the light on above him so fuck knows what he saw
 
deficiT said:
Lucky. Was she hot or what? Also, what's wrong with you? 😁🤔

I may have already mentioned this but the last bhu I was at was outside of Baltimore. We had a serial flasher patient. This big black woman in her 40s with summer teeth, would straight up just flash her tits at people and told us all she was a lesbian. Poor girl had a horrible stutter too. She would take a shower, and then scream for the staff to bring her a towel, every damn time. If they didn't bring her one, she'd traipse down the hall butt nekkid. It was really sad how bad off she was.

You see some fucked up shit in psych wards. You also meet some interesting people though. And have time to stop and just think about life and get shit in perspective. I mean I never had fun in the bhu, but I never dreaded it like so many. There was definitely uncomfortable moments, and the lack of freedom does suck at first, but once you stop acting like a spoiled brat, everything tends to just get better and you get through it. I acted horribly at points when I was mentally unwell, to the doctors and everyone. My last few trips were a lot smoother, despite my mental illness getting worse and worse, I at least had some modicum of self control by the time I got there.
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This kind of makes me think of the last time I was in rehab. It had a building for men and another for women. There was this middle building that had an auditorium for speakers and ceremonies. This one time they were having this big thing & lots of speakers coming in that were sober for years. I was in the front row with this girl I was kind of friends with there because she was kinda hilarious but crazy. Anyways, we were sitting there in the front row & she looks at me and said “as soon as everyone sits down and they are about to call up the first speaker, I’m just gonna run up there & lift up my shirt, flash everyone & scream Titties!!!” I was like ‘What lol’. Anyways everyone sat down & she ran up there but they grabbed her & took her down before she could do it. lol but she was screaming it.
 
I've been in the Pysch ward about 30 times. There usually not bad. I did have one bad experience though. I was on Thorazine which mellowed me out, but then I got swiched to Haldol which made me restless as hell. Haldol made me pace like crazy and made my legs shaky, I had the feeling like needed to keep moving around. Haldol sucks, but I love Thorazine.
 
MedicinalUser247 said:
I've been in the Pysch ward about 30 times. There usually not bad. I did have one bad experience though. I was on Thorazine which mellowed me out, but then I got swiched to Haldol which made me restless as hell. Haldol made me pace like crazy and made my legs shaky, I had the feeling like needed to keep moving around. Haldol sucks, but I love Thorazine.
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I have thank fuck never had haldol but i have had thorazine a few times and i gotta say it is the bomb when combined with morphine. I had about 100mg's of thorazine combined with about 150mg's of morphine for a severe attack of trigeminal neuralgia and it worked great. Stopped both the nausea and the pain. It had me nodding like crazy.

I have had thorazine alone as well and didnt find it unpleasant. I had it IM once i took it for opiate wd and it worked pretty good
 
MedicinalUser247 said:
I've been in the Pysch ward about 30 times. There usually not bad. I did have one bad experience though. I was on Thorazine which mellowed me out, but then I got swiched to Haldol which made me restless as hell. Haldol made me pace like crazy and made my legs shaky, I had the feeling like needed to keep moving around. Haldol sucks, but I love Thorazine.
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Thats acaticia( name in catalan). Its a very common side effect of antipsycothics. I had this on risperidone. Its really annoying. But I have to say that helpep me a lot to be back of my psycothic/maniac state.
 
Here's what you do when choosing an Antipsychotic. Look at the molecular structure first. For instance Seroquel, Zyprexa and Clozapine are all related and all very good. When it come to neuroleptics or typical antipsychotics. Ask for a low potency ones such as Thorazine and stay away from to high potency one such as Haldol and Prolixin because they have the most side effects.
 
kiely said:
I went to the E.R. and got shot up with Haldol.

It wasn't the psych ward but it was bad enough.

I was on a gurney.
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I my town there wasn't any resources for detox, so I checked myself into a psych ward, I'm bipolar and detoxed off of alcohol! If I had a gun I wouldn't be typing right now
 
Goddamn y'all nuttier than a fruitcake

(Just playing around.)

I have never been in a psych ward, but I came close. When I OD'd on etaqualone (a quaalude analog) I very nearly died. Was in the ICU for a number of days, it wasn't looking good, and they even told my family that if I were to awake, that they should be prepared for the possibility that I would have permanent brain damage.

But all of a sudden I woke up, immediately gagging on the breathing tube that was down my throat. I was fine (other than feeling half-dead).

Everyone thought it was a suicide attempt. So after recuperating and moving out of the ICU for a few days, I had to negotiate with the hospital psychiatrist for my release from the hospital. The psychiatrist was a real dick, wanted to transfer me to the psych ward, and eventually told the dude bluntly, "if I was actually trying to kill myself I'd be in the morgue right now; what happened was a total accident". He didn't like that answer but I was finally released a day or two later. In retrospect I was a big dick to him, insulting him, asking him what his USMLE scores were, and implying that he didn't choose psychiatry as a choice but rather that his scores were too low to be competitive for a more desirable specialty (psychiatrists are among the dumbest physicians around; if I was having a heart attack on a plane I'd rather be treated by a dentist or veterinarian than a psychiatrist). Maybe he didn't want to have to put up with me, but in any event I was released.

Another time, though not a psych ward, when i was 19 my mom took me to some inpatient rehab facility located in a hospital, "just to take a look". They showed me around, i talked to a few of staff and the other patients, and then i turn around and boom, the bitch had disappeared on me, she left me at the hospital. I hadnt gone through any intake, so I just called a taxi and left 🤣
 
someguyontheinternet said:
So now I'm curious, which specialty takes the physicians with the highest scores? Cardiology?
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This gives a general idea:



As you can see, psychiatrists are the bottom of the barrel. There is huge intelligence gap between your average psychiatrist and your average vascular surgeon (at least 1.5 standard deviation difference in IQ or equivalent).

Psychiatry residencies are the least competitive and its often where people wind up rather than aspire to.

Years ago, in the 1970s psychiatry attracted more intelligent people, but that faded away.
 
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